Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

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mūṣalāhata-mastiṣko
vireje rakta-dhārayā
girir yathā gairikayā
prahāraṁ nānucintayan
punar anyaṁ samutkṣipya
kṛtvā niṣpatram ojasā
tenāhanat su-saṅkruddhas
taṁ balaḥ śatadhācchinat
tato ’nyena ruṣā jaghne
taṁ cāpi śatadhācchinat

WORD BY WORD



TRANSLATION

Struck on the skull by the Lord’s club, Dvivida became brilliantly decorated by the outpour of blood, like a mountain beautified by red oxide. Ignoring the wound, Dvivida uprooted another tree, stripped it of leaves by brute force and struck the Lord again. Now enraged, Lord Balarāma shattered the tree into hundreds of pieces, upon which Dvivida grabbed yet another tree and furiously hit the Lord again. This tree, too, the Lord smashed into hundreds of pieces.

PURPORT

This verse has not purport by His Holiness Hṛdayānanda dās Gosvāmi, initiated disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svāmī Prabhupāda.



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